Phone is Moto G Stylus with Android 13. Whenever I launch the built in photos app, it now gives me a nag screen to download a version upgrade. When I click “upgrade”, nothing happens. It’s conceivable that I have network permission disabled for the app. I better check.

  1. Is this a familiar thing? How do I make it stop, either by installing the upgrade or by shutting off the nag screen?

  2. Is there a FOSS photo viewer that anyone recommends instead, that I can install from F-droid? I’m reasonably satisfied with the UI of the Google one. It allows sharing photos, moving them into subfolders, seeing the metadata, and some minor editing, all of which are useful. I don’t care in the slightest about cloud sync or google drive so it’s ok if the replacement app doesn’t have those.

Thanks!

  • Big P@feddit.ukEnglish
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    6 months ago

    If you don’t use the cloud sync does your phone not have a system gallery app that’s sufficient?

    • solrize@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I thought the system app was google photos? I’ll look in the apps screen again though.

      • tubaruco@lemm.eeEnglish
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        6 months ago

        every motorola phone ive had never had any builtin gallery app, only google photos (which i disable and install fossify gallery instead)

        this is probably because motorola adds very little to stock android, and as far as i know, stock android only has google photos, sadly

        • solrize@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          6 months ago

          My last moto (g4) was basically stock Android but the current phone had a ton of crap that I deleted or disabled.

          • tubaruco@lemm.eeEnglish
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            6 months ago

            well my family has moto g8 plays and some other, newer models. what android version was the g4?

            and yeah, stock android does have a lot of useless stuff

            • solrize@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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              6 months ago

              The G4 was shipped with Android 6 and there was an OTA upgrade to Android 7. It was a nice phone but it became stupidly slow with modern web bloat, and the software generally became flaky over time. The new phone is a huge improvement despite a few regressions.

  • macattack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    In terms of a long-term solution, if you have a lot of time and want to learn a new hobby, you could self-host Immich.

    In the short-term, have you cleared cache or tried deleting and reinstalling?

    • solrize@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I’ll look at immich but I already have a self hosted next cloud that I use for occasional photo uploads. Thanks.

    • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I think you missed this part.

      I don’t care in the slightest about cloud sync or google drive so it’s ok if the replacement app doesn’t have those.

  • vamp07@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    It’s this kind of nonsense that always makes me run back to my iPhone.

  • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Fossify Gallery is the new fork of Simple Gallery after the latter was bought by a marketing company. It’s on F-Droid and Droid-ify. https://www.f-droid.org/packages/org.fossify.gallery/

    It’s very customizable, and does everything you mentioned. Except that Google Photos can share a photo through the cloud. Fossify just has the normal Android share mechanism to send the photo to your email app, text app, etc.

    The built-in basic editor is very basic. Instead, I use “Photo Editor” from dev.macguyver. It’s practically Photoshop, but doing basic edits are pretty easy. I paid for the ad-free version, and it’s totally worth it. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iudesk.android.photo.editor